0.2% not 2%

Oh No, point 2 % of his net worth

0.2%

literally less than a traffic ticket in terms of scale

Fuckin hell- he just made it, what luck- he cashed in 8 of his 9 lives there

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Don’t data-centers require massive cooling?

Lol of course

His NAME is MARLINSPIKE?? Like the ancestral home of Captain Haddock from Tintin?! We really are living in a simulation

They should be, of course- but in more than one case they are not

I think a similar thing happened to an investigative journalist in DC

Some white hat hackers took control of a Jeep Grand Cherokee’s brakes and throttle remotely, like 8 years ago. The only reason to have WiFi or cell service on a vehicle is to let the government kill you lol

Edit: it was ELEVEN years ago

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/

TBH i really like that i had to get a bit techie again to make the switch. learning to use the terminal a little bit has ignited something in me, and the fact that linux doesnt track my shit has made me way more privacy conscious

I’m not very techie, so when I took my brand new Lenovo (cheap) laptop from w11 to Linux mint, it really felt like an achievement. I haven’t used a command terminal since college, and I straight up made a bootable usb and wiped w11

i think i was overestimating the capabilities of the technology. what we need is a communication method that can be actually encrypted and totally anonymized for location and user identity

yes to both of your questions

Hey everyone thank you for the really great and informative comments and links. I’m still new to meshnets and such, and have only recently taken a more active interest in privacy protection, so I very much appreciate the input

same- I come cause I reddit banned my 14 year old account cause of a trigger happy mod. Lemmy gives the vibes that brought me to reddit in 2012. I try to stay away from the political threads cause of the surveillance state but oi can’t really help myself

Closest I could find for UK

https://literacytrust.org.uk/parents-and-families/adult-literacy/

This is for the US only, unfortunately, but it substantiates my claim, according to this article 54% read below 6th grade level but the “average” American reads at 7-8th grade level

Most Americans read at or below a 6th grade level

I wonder if they are out of touch because they are CEOs, or whether being out of touch helps them become CEOs, real chicken and egg problem there